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Caribbean-Latin America
US sends in Marines to evacuate embassy personnel from Haiti amid bloody uprising as stench of decaying corpses drive people from their homes and violence threatens to engulf the Dominican Republic
2024-03-11
[Daily Mail, where America gets it news] See also here.
  • The airlift operation, which occurred Sunday, serves as the latest sign of Haiti's societal troubles, as locals in its capital, Port-au-Prince, continue to report the stench

  • The neighborhood around the embassy in the capital has been one of the hardest-hit

  • Its success was revealed in a statement from the US military's Southern Command later in the day

  • Violence in the Caribbean country broke out out this past week, and has since threatened to bring down the local government and other state institutions

  • As gangs across the country continue to unite, thousands have had fled their homes, and politicians across the region are still scrambling for a solution

Posted by:Skidmark

#4  #! when you look at it that way, Haiti was an American colony and occupied by US Marines from 1914 to 1934.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131   2024-03-11 10:36  

#3  The last I heard the DR was finishing its wall with Haiti.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131   2024-03-11 10:11  

#2  /\ Yes, I agree. Just a battalion+ with liberal rules of engagement please.
Posted by: Besoeker   2024-03-11 09:04  

#1  Since Haiti is a former French colony, France should lead the efforts to restore order. If only they had a military organization that specialized in that sort of thing.
Posted by: EMS Artifact   2024-03-11 09:01  

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